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  • "Here, Jesse," father said to me, tearing a strip from the sheet and fastening it to an ox-goad.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • Here again is where the fat German or the French madame is needed -- with an ox-goad.

    Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

  • From the puckered front peered a woman and two children; the man of the family was walking wearily beside, swinging an ox-goad.

    Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

  • Snatching up this, with his ox-goad, he followed in the footsteps of his fleeing wife.

    The Chinese Boy and Girl 1901

  • Snatching up this, with his ox-goad, he followed in the footsteps of his fleeing wife.

    The Chinese Boy and Girl Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

  • My hair is very white now, and my fingers hold a pen more easily than they could hold the ox-goad or the rifle, and mine to-day is all the backward look.

    Vanguards of the Plains Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • "Here, Jesse," father said to me, tearing a strip from the sheet and fastening it to an ox-goad.

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

  • Thus _aleph_, an ox; _beth_, a tent; _daleth_, a tent-door; _lamed_, an ox-goad; _mem_, water;

    Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

  • A herdsman, she judged, as Soa had suggested, for in a corner of the room stood an ox-goad hugely fashioned.

    The People of the Mist Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Doctor Holmes kept a rattlesnake in a cage for a pet, and was accustomed to stir it up with an ox-goad.

    Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881

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